Thanks to the people on here who mentioned using the pi for xbmc, I have had a pi sitting in a draw now for a while and I have finally got around to doing something with it and have it connecting to my wd live hub and streaming music.

It took a bit of farting around but now I can browse and choose music from my phone which is better than my wd ever allowed. It really was quite straight forward and it is ace.

Well I've been playing about with Retropie on my Pi. Lots of fun, but can be a bit of a pain to set up, especially joypad configs. But if you have the inclination it's great when you get it running.

Some folks claim to have N64 and PSX running on it, but even with heatsinks on mine and turbo overclocking it doesn't make them run to any decent standard. Best to accept what it can do, such as 8 and 16 bit consoles, and play to those strengths. At least in my case anyway.

I wish there was something I could get for my TV, a little dongle, that would take a wirless HDMI signal from PC, and provide a remote control reciever that would relay back to my PC

Instead of messing about with all these streaming boxes and media center things, a lot of people have a beefy computer that is already capable, all you need on your TV is the video signal and remote control. Why can't I just buy a dongle. You're streaming HD Video from the networked PC anyway, why not just, oh nevermind

RightBean wrote:
I wish there was something I could get for my TV, a little dongle, that would take a wirless HDMI signal from PC, and provide a remote control reciever that would relay back to my PC

Instead of messing about with all these streaming boxes and media center things, a lot of people have a beefy computer that is already capable, all you need on your TV is the video signal and remote control. Why can't I just buy a dongle. You're streaming HD Video from the networked PC anyway, why not just, oh nevermind